Barbara Hoose Twelvetree . . . PAS 1936
I was born of missionary parents in Kiukiang, £Ln the Kiarigsi Province
of southern China.) When we moved to geiping, (as it was then called}
I entered third grade... my first formal schooling. After graduation f^M c&tiie back to (the United States/to attend Santa Barbara
State College in Santa Barbara, California. I married Jack Shepard,
a native "Santa Barbarian", and we finished college togethei>[befpre
the second World Wary a^^^J^births of our) two sons,^Ja$nes do?in Shepard, III, in 1943, and Geoffrey Carroll Shepard, in 1944. We lived
all over southern California as our boys grew up. They went to eleven
different schools during that time, and so were delighted to attend
the same high school in Long Beach for three consecutive years?)
I received my teaching credential at Ldng Beach State College during
those years, and taught 1st and 2nd grades in nearby Seal Beach and
later in Beverly Hills. When Jack rnd I were divorced I moved to
west Los Angeles to be nearer my brother Harn and his family, and my
younger sister Ginia Hoose Piper and her family.
It was there that I met Barrett Twelvetree, and we've now been married
for eighteen years. V/e retired ten years ago, and moved to northern
California near Sacramento. I miss living near the ocean...shades of
PeitaihoJ! But Grass Valley in. the Sierra Foothills is a lovely area,
and we truly enjoy living here. I also enjoy volunteering as a teacher's aid at a local elementary school. We have had a variety of recreational vehicles through the years, so we've had fun gypsying around
our country, and visiting friends and relatives. Our children are all
married, (Barrett has a daughter, Joan Lockwood) and we have six grandchildren between us. Such richness!

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Barbara Hoose Twelvetree . . . PAS 1936
I was born of missionary parents in Kiukiang, £Ln the Kiarigsi Province
of southern China.) When we moved to geiping, (as it was then called}
I entered third grade... my first formal schooling. After graduation f^M c&tiie back to (the United States/to attend Santa Barbara
State College in Santa Barbara, California. I married Jack Shepard,
a native "Santa Barbarian", and we finished college togethei>[befpre
the second World Wary a^^^J^births of our) two sons,^Ja$nes do?in Shepard, III, in 1943, and Geoffrey Carroll Shepard, in 1944. We lived
all over southern California as our boys grew up. They went to eleven
different schools during that time, and so were delighted to attend
the same high school in Long Beach for three consecutive years?)
I received my teaching credential at Ldng Beach State College during
those years, and taught 1st and 2nd grades in nearby Seal Beach and
later in Beverly Hills. When Jack rnd I were divorced I moved to
west Los Angeles to be nearer my brother Harn and his family, and my
younger sister Ginia Hoose Piper and her family.
It was there that I met Barrett Twelvetree, and we've now been married
for eighteen years. V/e retired ten years ago, and moved to northern
California near Sacramento. I miss living near the ocean...shades of
PeitaihoJ! But Grass Valley in. the Sierra Foothills is a lovely area,
and we truly enjoy living here. I also enjoy volunteering as a teacher's aid at a local elementary school. We have had a variety of recreational vehicles through the years, so we've had fun gypsying around
our country, and visiting friends and relatives. Our children are all
married, (Barrett has a daughter, Joan Lockwood) and we have six grandchildren between us. Such richness!